We Are Being Held Momentarily At This Station
Well, one week has passed since moving up to New York and working fulltime. As someone who has been in school for most of the past 20 years, the transition to the real world has been exciting. It's also reassuring to have several friends up here too. Alison is having an apartment-warming party tonight, and Katie and I saw an awesome off-Broadway play yesterday called 33 to Nothing. It took place in a rehearsal studio and followed the final practice and ensuing breakup of a 30-something rock band. So they played through several songs, blamed the drummer for mistakes, and got into drunken arguments. Sitting in the front row with an audience of no more than 50, it was an intimate, entertaining experience...made me miss the Okay Samurai days. And the apartment search continues too. I'm leaning pretty heavily towards Brooklyn. If anyone knows of any good studio apartments in the area, please let me know.
It's been a great first week at Frog as well. When starting to tackle a project at Portfolio Center, I always loved taking a huge piece of newsprint and filling it up with as many sketches and ideas as possible...pouring imagination onto paper; making it real. That conceptual stage was always my favorite part of the design process at PC, and it's been cool to have the opportunity to do the same at Frog, albeit for real clients needing real solutions. I definitely already feel like part of the "pond." Another perk: every day at 4PM is coffee and snacktime. The office manager yells to inform the office what time it is, and everyone flocks to the kitchen to socialize and munch on a variety of snacks. Thursday was Tasti D-Lite ice cream; yesterday was wine and cheese. It's the Frog version of high tea.
When riding the subways, there are times when you pass another train riding on a parallel track in the same direction, and you see people staring back at you through the lit windows. Everything else is black and without any point of reference, so it looks like you're flying through space. Little things like that are fun. Maybe the subway will lose its attraction over time, but right now it's still like I'm riding Space Mountain to work every morning. And the entertainers who come into the cars are sometimes interesting. The best are the dancers, because they use the environment so well. They'll lock arms and somersault around the train, weaving back and forth between poles, or throw/slam each other into the ceiling before landing a flip. It's pretty freakin' impressive. Although the Michael Jackson impersonator at the Times Square station today was pretty good too.
Saturday, April 22 at 12:26 PM
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